Family Quotes
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.Tom Robbins
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.George Burns
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.Warren Gamaliel Harding
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.Alexander Pope
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.Gray Davis
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.Elizabeth II
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.Tom Masson
The family - That dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.Dodie Smith
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.Confucius
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.Virginia Sati
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.Ruby Manikan
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.Isaac Rosenfeld
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.Vartan Gregorian
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.Sir V Pritchett
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.Helen Kelle
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.J. S. Bryan
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.Willa Cathe
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.M. F. K. Fishe
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.Ruth Nanda Anshen
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.Marcelene Cox
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.Author Unknown
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.Calvin Trillin
A married man with a family will do anything for money.Charles De Talleyrand
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
